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Over the years, one of the topics we’ve covered with great interest is communication, wether it be between doctors and patients, nurses and doctors or any other combination of the health care players. But what happens when one of those players is old and suffering from dementia? On today’s Health Show, our elder mental health series deals with communicating with a mind that’s grown cloudy with age. We’ll also go to the other end of the mental health picture, and look at what’s being done to treat children with mental illness. And we’ll hear about a European program that uses virtual reality to treat people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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ELDER MENTAL HEALTH 2: Communicating Between June & December
Have you ever noticed how we sometimes shift communication gears during the day. We talk baby talk with kids, shoot the breeze with our friends and shift into formal mode at the office. But have you ever noticed someone trying to speak with with a disoriented elder, someone in their 80s or 90s, perhaps with some dementia. No one could look more lost and frustrated...and that goes for both sides of the conversation. In this, the second part of a year long, five part series, The Health Show’s Jacqueline Froelich reports on techniques to overcome communication barriers with frail elders.
SUPPORT FOR OUR ELDER MENTAL HEALTH SERIES IS PROVIDED BY THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC FOUNDATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO ADVANCE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
Minding Our Children's Mental Health
One in five children has a diagnosable mental health disorder, according to the advocacy group "Mental Health America". But nearly two-thirds of these kids get little or no help. If mental illness goes untreated, a child home and school life is often disrupted...and the risk of academic failure rises, as well as chances they will have to someday deal with the juvenile justice system. There’s also a greater risk of suicide. Heather Meldrum reports from Oregon.
Virtual P-T-S-D Treatment
We’ve spent a good amount of time over the past few months talking about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But it is by no means a problem unique to the United States...or, for that matter, to war veterans. In the Netherlands, virtual reality is used to train emergency service personnel to deal with a crisis situation. Now those same simulations are being used to treat people suffering from P-T-S-D. Radio Netherlands’ Marnie Chesterton reports.
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